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Table 4.

Top 10 aspects mentioned most often by patients and carers as important in patients’ HRQoL

Patients (n = 72)				Carers (n = 17)
Stage I (n = 18)	Stage II (n = 10)	Stage III (n = 16)	Stage IV (n = 28)	Carers (n = 17)
Family^a	Family^a	Family^a	Family^a	Capability^a
Good care^a	Fear^a	Worry^a	Good medicines^a	No AEs^a
Finances^b	Enjoy life	Normal life	Normal life^a	Pain free^a
Normal life^b	Capability^b	Therapy burden	Capability^b	Drug effectiveness^b
Support^b	Good doctors^b	Counselling^b	Enjoy life^b	Family^b
Enjoy Life^b	Good health^b	Enjoy life^b	Support^b	Normal life^b
Access to medicines^c	Normal life^b	Good care^c	Good care	Access to medicines^c
Fear^c	Pain free^b	Good doctors^c	Good health^c	Cure^c
Good doctors^c	Relapse^b	Not to worry^c	Good information^c	Finances^c
Capability^d	Worry^b	Pain free^c	Access to medicines^d	Good care^c
Friends^d			Friends^d	Good health^c
Good health^d			Pain free^d	Uncertainty^c
No anxiety^d
Patient network^d
Positive mood^d
Work^d

^aThe same number of respondents reported this aspect to be important in their HRQoL; ^bThe same number of respondents reported this aspect to be important in their HRQoL; ^cThe same number of respondents reported this aspect to be important in their HRQoL; ^dThe same number of respondents reported this aspect to be important in their HRQoL